Automation Tester - Temporary opportunity until 30th November 2027

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000

You see the big picture, you’ve always worked on a grand scale, and now you’re ready to re-focus on grand impact.

Your innovative mindset is key to creating solutions to complex problems. Our systems drive our organisational success and underpin every journey our customers take. This is your opportunity to be part of an expert team who build and refine seamless technology experiences.

In this role, you'll:

Working as an Automation Tester, you will largely be responsible for designing, writing, and maintaining automated test scripts and system workflows, using the team’s automation framework. You will understand new features, review requirements, and translate them into automated test scenarios, and test coverage.

Other duties & responsibilities will include (not limited to):

• Framework improvement and tooling - Enhancing the automation framework, improving test reliability, integrating with CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining test infrastructure
• Test execution, analysis, and defect reporting - Running automated test suites, analysing failures, identifying defects, and working with developers to resolve issues
• Collaboration and technical discussions - Participating in sprint planning, design discussions, and working closely with developers, product teams, and manual testers to ensure testability and quality

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack

About You:

For you to be really successful in this role, we believe you should meet all of the following criteria:

• At least 2+ years experience performing in a similar role, as described above
• Solid experience in UI automation
• An engineering, and/or computer science qualification
• Understanding, and/or a background within an Agile working environment
• Background within embedded systems
• Solid software architecture, and automation framework understanding

Nice to Haves:

• Strong C++/C# background, with a proven ability to read and understand development code
• Prior employment within the telecommunications sector
• Java, Python, and/or similar languages

This is a fixed-term flexible hybrid role until 30th of November 2027. 50% of your time will be office based, typically based from our offices in the CBD. This is a Grade 6 role, $111,625.00 - $122,786.00 + super.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.